Types of Industries on the basis of nature of work are:
1. Genetic Industries: Industries which are concerned with the generating activities like agriculture, gardening, animal husbandry, fishery, poultry, forestry etc.
2. Extractive Industries: Various kinds of goods are extracted from natural resources like land, forests, water etc. A few example of extractive industries are getting coal, iron, copper, natural oil, gas etc. through mining, catching fish from sea, wood, herbs, gum, rubber etc. from forests etc.
3. Manufacturing Industries: In such industries raw material and semi-finished goods are transformed into finished goods, e.g. Making sugar from sugarcane, cloth from cotton, furniture from wood etc.
4. Constructive (Building) Industries: They create means which are more useful to the people, like building roads, bridges, canals, dams, etc.
5. Assembling Industries: Here some parts of a machine are assembled so to make them useful for the consumer, e.g. computers, cars, watches, etc.